Avni Chag
Reconfiguring Scripture and Establishing a Sampradāya: The compositional history of the Svāminārāyaṇa Sampradāya’s redacted Śikṣāpatrī (working title)
South Asia Section, School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics
Current PhD Students & Recently Awarded PhDs
Maddalena Italia
The Erotic Untranslatable: The Modern Reception of Sanskrit Love Poetry in the West and in India
Rabia Latif Khan
Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad
- Email: 543721@soas.ac.uk
David Landau
Working title - National narratives and the (re)production of Minority: Minor Literature in Hindi
- Email: 326158@soas.ac.uk
Jayanta Rai
'Restructuring Nepal' (working title)
Sandra Sattler
Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory:Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Puranic Literature and (Temple) Art
Patricia Sauthoff
Open Secrets and the Retention of Power in Kashmir Saivism
- Email: 249292@soas.ac.uk
Rakesh Sengupta
An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Early Indian Cinema (1930s-1950s)
- Email: rakesh_sengupta@soas.ac.uk
Florence Shahabi
Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
- Email: Florence_Shahabi@soas.ac.uk
Shubha Shanthamurthy
Evolution of Śaivism in the Deccan in the 12th to 14th centuries CE
Maryam Sikander
Upstart Punches: Humour and Satire in Urdu Literature
- Email: maryam_sikander@soas.ac.uk
Ruth Westoby
Gendered constructs in Haṭha Yoga
- Email: ruth_westoby@soas.ac.uk
Bryony Whitmarsh
'The Narayanhiti Palace Museum: Memory, Power and National Identity'
- Email: bryony_whitmarsh@soas.ac.uk
Zezhou Yang
'Nepal-China relations' (working title)
Recently Awarded PhDs
2017
- Chinmay Sharma The Mahabharata re-constructed for Hindi and English publics: modernity and the "national epic"
2016
- Priyanka Basu "Bengali" Kobigaan: Performers, Histories and the Cultural Politics of "Folk"
- Eleanor Halsall The Indo-German beginnings of Bombay Talkies, 1925-1939
- Krishna Prasad Upadhyay Vulnerability and International Humanitarian Law: The Tharu Experience of Nepal’s Internal Armed Conflict (1996-2006)
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2014
- Mona Chettri Identitiy Politics in the Eastern Himalayas
- Syed Asif Haider Muslim Modernities on the Hindi screen
2013
- Rashi Rohatgi Abhimanyu Unnuth and the World of Mauritian Hindi Poetry
2012
- Mayurika Chakravorty Enchantment and the politics of subversion: fantasy fiction in colonial Bengal
- David Lunn Looking for Common Ground: Aspects of Cultural Production in Hindi/Urdu, 1900-1947
- Udeni Samarasekara Reconstructing the Transition from Oral to Written: The Comparative Genesis and Reception of the Iliad, the Ramayana and the Aeneid
- Soofia Siddique Remembering the revolt of 1857: Contrapuntal formations in Indian literature and history.
2011
- Louise Harrington Conflicted places and thirdspaces: the landscape of Partition in South Asian literature and film
- Akhil Katyal Playing a double game: idioms of same sex desire in India
2010
- Nuno Mourato Translating Hinduism: Juan Mascaro and Indian Spirituality
2009
- Manjita Palit Songs of the Body: Embodiments of Sexuality in Bengali Literature and Culture, 1880-1920
- Mara Malagodi Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal (1990-2007)
- Abu Musa Mohammad Arif Billah The Influence of Persian Literature on two Medieval Bengali Poets - Shah Muhammad Sagir and Alaol
- Ana Jelnikar Towards Universal Man: R. Tagore, W.B. Yeats, and Srecko Kosovel: Identity in Difference
2007
- Sutanuka Ghosh Identity politics and the twentieth century bhadramahila in Bengali women's fiction
2006
- Choy Fah Kong Saccakiriya: The Belief in the Power of True Speech in Theravada Buddhist Tradition
2005
- Fabrizio Ferrari The Shunya Purana of Ramai Pandit: a survey of ancestral beliefs of Bengal
- Angela Eyre Land, language and literary identity: a thematic comparison of Indian novels in Hindi and English
2004
- Tsering Shakya The Emergence of Modern Tibetan Literature - gsar rtsom
- Hepzibah Israel Protestant translations of the Bible (1714-1995) and defining a protestant Tamil identity
- Hanne-Ruth Thompson Towards a definitive grammar of Bengali: A study and criticism of research on selected grammatical structures
2003
- Rhoderick Chalmers "We Nepalis". Language, literature and the formation of a Nepali public sphere in India, 1914-1940
- Rochelle Pinto The Formation of a Divided Public: Print, Language and Literature in Colonial Goa